Category: Animated Short
Country: Canada
Year: 2009
Run Time: 11:00
Director: Chris Landreth

By Oscar winner Chris Landreth, THE SPINE uses uniquely bizarre but strangely believable imagery, to tell the story of an ordinary married couple whose lives are in turn tragic, absurd, and beautiful.

"What I've tried to get across is not that these are freaks, although their appearance is freakish. The characters have these appearances due to the stuff that shapes all of us. We are all damaged, fallible and messed up; we are all freaks. That's why I'm attracted to this type of imagery: Not to alienate these characters from us as freaks, but hopefully to bring them closer, to give a means for us to identify with them."
--Chris Landreth (director)

Awards: Best Animated Short, Cinequest and the Nashville Film Festival

Screenings: Annecy International Animation Festival, Worldwide Short Film Festival (Toronto), Newport Beach Film Festival, Atlantic Film Festival

Saturday, March 26, 5:00 PM
UACCB
$5 / $4 Students and Over Age 54 / $3 Foothills Film Society Members (part of the International Animation Showcase)

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